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So Joe Biden was on The Breakfast club: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." [UP: Apologizes]
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I never said torn on who I am voting for, I said torn on voting for this guy. I am not voting for Trump but Biden is not making it easy to fill in the bubble next to his name either. I don't think I am going to beg anyone I know to vote like in the last few elections, and if they say no I can only shrug my shoulders.
The fuck? This is equally worse! The Breakfast Club has a majority black listener base that FREQUENTLY holds political commentary, news and topics about blackness that relates to the community and you think a revised statement like that wouldnt be equally controversial?
black boomers vote. Bernie was very popular among the the younger crowds but few voted when it mattered.
I'd say he should steer clear of flying off the cuff whenever it comes to issues of race or ethnicity. I'd hope his staff is telling him the same.
Im not fucking talking about the primaries and the fact that the only people that matter are the ones who are able to show up at the ballot shows that liberals and moderates havent learned fuck all in 2016.
Right, it's not that he's wrong...
He just shouldn't say it. Ever. Holy shit this isn't difficult.
Yeah, voting matters no matter the time. Boomers understand how important a vote is and how valuable it is. If you wanted Bernie to win, vote for him.
I watched the whole interview and it definitely is a stupid remark but overall it was pretty good. Charlemagne asked alot of tough questions regarding the black community and Joe answered pretty straightly. I haven't fact checked anything he said but this is definitely being taken out of context and imo inappropriately weaponized in a bad faith manner.
Yeah they were having real trouble making Joe Biden their top story between everyone calling him a reanimated corpse, OBAMAGATE, and Tara Reade.
Care to explain how Joe just being blatantly racist in an interview with a black host is pearl clutching?
You're derailing the fucking topic. You are ESPECIALLY derailing the point I was making to the user I was responding to because the only thing the DNC has after all these months as a defense against his mounting gaffes, insults to certain demographics and commentary is 'muh primaries'.
Biden, really think about what you said here. Realize how it comes across and listen to the people telling you this is a shit thing to say. Then fucking apologize. You can't be saying shit like this if you want to beat Donald Trump even if the thought made sense in your head at the time.
There's this process they have, a primary election, in which people vote for their preferred candidate.
People overwhelmingly chose Biden even after middling debate performances.
Shorthand for the Democratic Voters who support Biden. The DNC that also supports Biden. The same coalition that wants to run Extreme Hard mode on a campaign that should of been Baby mode in terms of optics and political messaging.
EDIT: whats impressive here is that the main meat of the comment was simply that PoliERA simoultaneously acknowledges that there is a divide in opinion on what young vs old black people support and care for and how ERA ONLY seems to care and listen to certain demographics so long as they support 'their' guy. Yet the very moment they step out of line dissenting opinion is beaten down and users told to shut up because the beginning and end of your worth is polls. Even though I never even BROUGHT UP the polls OR the primary in my original response.
Oh god, we haven't even gotten to the debates yet and he's already pulling this shit.
I can only imagine the massive train wreck we're gonna get when he gets put on the same stage as Trump.
I can only imagine the massive train wreck we're gonna get when he gets put on the same stage as Trump.
it's good that Joe Biden decided to act like an arbiter on blackness actually
I think he will be fine against Trump in the debates. Trump is so bad and the expectations for Biden will be minimal.
This is a mischaracterization. Joe is feeling himself too much in that comment but that wasn't a racist interview.
We are talking about Joe Biden ( the one people voted for ) saying something stupid. What were you talking about ?
I wonder if they're gonna flat out skip race relations questions this time around considering the two candidates involved.
Joe should be thanking his lucky stars that Covid is a thing because without it he would have gaffed himself into loosing worse than Hillary did. Honestly, he still might.
The first Presidential debate to have n bombs, in very different ways.
I don't feel it's going to impact the race because it's a sentiment I've seen held in the black community. Way back when I was more of a moderate, I used to actually catch some light hearted flak from my coworkers calling me a republican. It's a sentiment I also witness when I lived up north and it didn't seem much different when I came south whether within family or outside. Biden still shouldn't have said it no matter what the general concensus, but I don't think it's going to mess him up on a major level and that isn't dismissing anyone's feelings, it's just thoughts on the election. Could be wrong, could be right. I personally feel that the only people that generally seem to consistently give a shit about what Fox News or trump has to say is his base and era posters.
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